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A comment on ESP32/ESP8266 Wi-Fi Attacks. Parent comment

Re:ESP32/ESP8266 Wi-Fi Attacks by guiambros on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @03:28PM (#20870224)
Parent didn't say this was a backdoor; just that they "can be compelled" to add one, if requested by the Chinese government in the future.

Sadly this isn't a tin foil hat possibility.

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Re:ESP32/ESP8266 Wi-Fi Attacks by ncmncm on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @09:58AM (#20877241)
Not unique to Chinese firms either. Sprint resisted blanket surveillance, for a while, and were finally coerced into line. Do you imagine hardware vendors are immune to the same pressure, in the US, Japan, and Europe?
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